Questions in this quiz: Kings and Queens of England

English monarchs from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II. The Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, and Windsors — successions, marriages, wars, and abdications.

1. Which king's death at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485 ended the Wars of the Roses? — Options: Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VI, Edward V
2. Which monarch broke with Rome in the 1530s to establish the Church of England? — Options: Henry VII, Edward VI, Henry VIII, James I
3. Which king was executed in 1649 following the English Civil War? — Options: Charles I, James II, Charles II, William III
4. Which 20th-century king gave up the throne to marry the American divorcée Wallis Simpson? — Options: George V, George VI, Edward VII, Edward VIII
5. Which queen's roughly five-year reign saw the burning of nearly 300 Protestants, earning her a grim nickname? — Options: Elizabeth I, Mary I, Anne, Lady Jane Grey
6. Which royal house succeeded the Stuarts on the British throne in 1714? — Options: Tudor, Hanover, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Plantagenet
7. Which English king famously had six wives?